Author: Ryan Neudorf

  • Please don’t customize social media icons

    Please don’t customize social media icons

    When I put on my front-end developer hat, I’m often the last line of defence between the client and an unfortunate typo, bad idea or missed opportunity. I’m the last pair of eyes to examine a design before it hits the development environment. Designers probably hate me for it, but if I see a design…


  • The SimCity Debacle: A Case for EA

    The SimCity Debacle: A Case for EA

    I was one of the nerd horde desperately following news of the new SimCity’s release. Eating up every glassbox demo video on youtube. Visiting the website daily to check the release date. When March 5th rolled around, I convinced my wife to let me install Windows on her MacBook Pro and sat there eagerly awaiting…


  • Google Reader is Dead. NewsWorthy.ca to the rescue!

    NewsWorthy.ca is a project I’ve been working on for the past few months. In a nutshell, it’s a better way to get all the latest local news in one place. Sites like Reddit and Google News are a good way to get the “best” or “most important” stories of the day. But they sometimes fail at…


  • Mailbox.app – First Impressions

    I got access to mailbox.app last night around midnight, have been using it all day. My very brief review: The ability to mark emails to “read later” seems clever and works fairly well. It’s smart enough to know if it’s 1am and you tell it to read an email tomorrow, you actually mean at the…


  • Cause and Effect and IKEA

    With the fervor surrounding the grand opening of IKEA’s Winnipeg store (their first new market in Canada since 1982, btw), the media, Twitter, bloggers, internet-trolls, your mom are all giving IKEA way to much credit.  They are confusing cause and effect. IKEA this year and The Jets return last year are not revitalizing our fair city. They are…